American elm is trying to get out of the shadow of past diseases
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Wow! I had no idea we had resistant cultivars. That's a great thing. I'll look forward to seeing the first elm tree. 
We lived in an Elm lined street (as so many people did) called Elm Place. Yes, really. This is a photo of my Mom in the 50s with those trees in the background. Hard to believe they were wiped out all at once like that.
We lived in an Elm lined street (as so many people did) called Elm Place. Yes, really. This is a photo of my Mom in the 50s with those trees in the background. Hard to believe they were wiped out all at once like that.
It was actually on slide film and yes, there was color back then. Those things preserve perfectly. My sister is a photographer and had access to whatever equipment it took to scan it in.
It's so fresh and crisp, it almost brings her back.
It's so fresh and crisp, it almost brings her back.
My dad was big into photography (he traveled the world) so we have tons of slides. He had good equipment and I think his company bought him slide film. Never thought of that as being unusual then, but I guess it was!
I have quite a large number of Kodachrome slides which my Dad took in the 1950's. Also a lot of color slides that he took in the South Pacific during World War II. I think it was quite common for people to take color pictures back then.
As a kid growing up in St. Louis during the 1950's, our beautiful tree-lined suburban street was also wiped out by the disease.
As a kid growing up in St. Louis during the 1950's, our beautiful tree-lined suburban street was also wiped out by the disease.